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Category Tall Grass

The tall grasses came out of a desire to create something manageable by hand, without heavy equipment. One person can install them easily and they are not too expensive to build even in stainless steel.

Prairie Grass Parts

I’m starting the 5th version of the Prairie Grass prototype. I’ve taken into the studio all five of the previous prototype stalks and taking them apart. Most of the pieces can be reused: the 5, 1/2″ conduit pipes, all the…

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Prairie Grass Engineering

What I learn from Hadi I just had a long meeting with Hadi Sajadi and I need to jot down some notes. The 3/4″ pipes will not stand up under 90 mile per hour winds at 16′ lengths. So we…

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Lighting Grasses: With LED Strips

Here are the issues that need solutions. The bare LEDs are overwhelming the sculpture and I don't know how to light the seedpods without seeing the LEDs. Maybe we have to go back to heavily baffled flood lamps at the base. HELP!
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Lighting the Tall Grasses

This tells the story of why I created this blogging website. It is my attempt to get help with lighting the Tall Grasses. If you want to help, please start here and follow the rest of the posts.
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Tall Grasses Details

This page gets right down to how these grasses are constructed. It also identifies some of their weaknesses in an attempt to get feedback from friends and colleagues.
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